TopRanked.io Weekly Affiliate Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [Codere Affiliates Review]

Quick Disclosure: We’re about to tell you that Codere affiliates is pretty great. And we really mean it. Just know that if you click on a Codere affiliates link, we may earn a small commission. Your choice.

Let’s be honest. Come this time next week, we’re going to be so busy doing affiliate marketing we’ll probably forget to say it.

So here goes.

Now that’s out of the way, let’s get down to business.

TopRanked.io Affiliate Partner Program of the Week — Codere Affiliates

If you’re gonna get down to business as an affiliate marketer, there’s one thing you definitely need — a killer affiliate program that pays killer affiliate commissions.

Lucky for you, I’ve got just the ticket — Codere Affiliates.

Here’s what makes Codere Affiliates great.

Codere Affiliates — The Product

If you join Codere Affiliates, you’re going to be promoting some of the best online casino and sportsbook offers on the market.

And by best, what I really mean is Codere Affiliates gives you access to one of the strongest, most high-converting brands out there.

If you need proof, go take a look at when the company behind Codere Affiliates was founded.

That was 1980, way before the dawn of the internet as we know it. And that means, Codere Affiliates actually got its start in traditional, meat-space casinos.

That gives the Codere Affiliates brand a massive credibility boost over the faceless online-only brands.

Now, if you’ve never heard of Codere Affiliates and its land-based casinos, then that’s probably because you don’t live in its main geos — Mexico/LATAM. But that doesn’t mean you can’t promote with Codere Affiliates.

Anyone can promote with Codere Affiliates. And that includes you.

Codere Affiliates — The Commissions

Codere Affiliates is slightly unusual for an affiliate program that we feature here. Usually, we like it when affiliate programs make their commission rates public.

Codere Affiliates, however, likes to keep their commission rates private. And that means, we can’t really do much aside from say that yes, there are reliable sources out there that mention rev share plans paying up to 50% with Codere Affiliates. That’s 100% real.

What’s also real is that Codere Affiliates offer some pretty neat CPA and hybrid deals to more motivated affiliates. Just know that, to get them, you’re gonna have to have a chat with your Codere Affiliates manager.

But that’s not so hard, is it?

Codere Affiliates — Next Steps

Look, if we feature an affiliate program here, it’s usually because it’s really good. Codere Affiliates is no exception to this rule.

Now, admittedly, this quick Codere Affiliates review was pretty short on detail. So, if detail’s what you’re looking for, head to TopRanked.io for our in-depth Codere Affiliates review.

Otherwise, if you know what’s good for you, you can simply head to Codere Affiliates and sign up today.

Affiliate News Takeaways

The last time we did a pre-New Year’s edition was way back when we covered affiliate programs for New Year’s resolutions. And, at the time, we also made a couple of predictions about what to look out for in 2024.

The biggest of those was, of course, our predictions for AI.

In particular, whether we should expect some sort of massive AI takeover as everyone was predicting — remember all those “What did Ilya see?” memes?

Now, I don’t know how well you remember. But, way back then, we were still dealing with the aftermath of Altman’s OpenAI ouster. That, and a whole lotta hype about Q*/”what did Ilya see” and how it signaled the arrival of the AGI takeover.

Anyway, our take basically boiled down to a big fat “no way”. And one year later, I’m gonna say that was pretty spot on the money, even if “o3” is supposed to be a major breakthrough.

But more on that later.

Now, as for why we said no way to AGI in 2024, that was pretty simple. It all comes down to exponentials — something Altman claims he understands better than most people.

And, in a way, I almost want to agree with him. He’s been skirting around them for a while now without anyone really calling him out on it.

I mean, just take a look at these numbers that we posted last year…

• $50k: The estimated cost to train GPT-2.
• $4.6M: The estimated cost to train GPT-3.
• “Over $100M”: The estimated cost to train GPT-4, according to Altman.

…and then project those numbers forward and tell me how we didn’t see the AI scaling wall coming.

Now, I know it’s tempting to think OpenAI’s latest model is some sort of breakthrough that proves the scaling wall doesn’t exist.

And besides, didn’t lord Altman recently confirm there is no wall?

there is no wall

— Sam Altman (@sama) November 14, 2024

And this seems to be backed up by o3.

I mean, how could we not look at these Arc-AGI evals and not be amazed?

But there are a couple of things to pay attention to here.

First, the increase in abilities is not linear. If you try and draw a quick line through it, you kind of end up with something that looks vaguely logarithmic.

And speaking of log curves, take a look at the cost per task.

Notice something funny about the scale used x axis? (Cost per task.)

Yep. It’s plotted using a log scale.

Now, for those of you who’ve forgotten your high school math, all you really need to remember is this — a logarithm is the inverse of an exponential function.

In other words, the increase in ability of these models as they scale is the opposite of exponential. Meanwhile, the costs that come with each “inverse exponential” increase in ability are increasing exponentially.

So, exponentially increasing costs for inverse exponential improvements… but apparently “there is no wall”.

Hmmm. Maybe I’ll buy the no-wall thing once we discover perpetual energy.

Also, let’s not forget about this line from Arc’s blog post announcing the o3 results:

“Furthermore, early data points suggest that the upcoming ARC-AGI-2 benchmark will still pose a significant challenge to o3, potentially reducing its score to under 30% even at high compute (while a smart human would still be able to score over 95% with no training).”

That kinda reminds me of some of the same stuff that’s got in the way of GPT-4 taking over as much as people were expecting. Basically, these models don’t really deal well with anything they haven’t been trained on/for.

I suspect GPT-4's performance is influenced by data contamination, at least on Codeforces.

Of the easiest problems on Codeforces, it solved 10/10 pre-2021 problems and 0/10 recent problems.

This strongly points to contamination.

1/4 https://t.co/wKtkyDRGGG pic.twitter.com/wm6yP6AmGx

— Horace He (@cHHillee) March 14, 2023

Now, don’t get me wrong here. This isn’t to poo-poo on AI completely. There’s plenty of stuff it can do really well.

And yeah, it will keep getting better.

That much I can agree on.

It’s just, I can’t help but feel like what we have is more akin to the revolution the PC brought about, and less like the promised land of abundance or whatever else is supposedly just around the corner.

By that, I mean AI’s gonna speed up/automate a bunch of tedious stuff.

Case in point — there’s no way a human could possibly produce this kinda slop at the speed and scale that AI can.

But that doesn’t mean we’re anywhere near close to achieving the magical world of infinite abundance grifters like Altman and co. would have us believe.

And by Altman and co., I’m not just talking about his contemporaries. Pundits have been promising similar futures for decades now.

And yet, we’re still here doing the same thing, but different.

So What to Expect in 2025?

So, with that out of the way, here’s one big prediction and one takeaway for AI 2025.

Altman Says We Hit AGI

If there’s one thing Altman’s more consistent with than his continued insistence that no one understands exponentials, it’s his continued “managing down” of AGI expectations.

I mean, in the space of a year or so, we’ve gone from the claim that AGI will “elevate humanity” to “AGI can get built and the world will mostly go on in the same way.”

And that kinda sounds like someone laying the groundwork needed to claim the next incremental improvement represents AGI.

But, I think if we evaluate whatever’s claimed to be AGI using 2022-23 expectations, we’re going to be sorely disappointed.

Let Me Rehash My 2024 Takeaway

Last year when we did this, I had a theory — that the real AI winners would be the people who take the bits and pieces we have so far, and wire them up into something massively automated.

To quote last year’s takeaway: “In reality, we’re [not] going to have our minds blown by some quantum leap in AI itself, but by some company that duck-tapes a bunch of stuff together to make something so massively automated that, for a moment, we’ll almost feel like we’re living in the AGI age.”

Now, sadly, I think I might have overestimated the potential here. With 2025 coming to a close, I’m yet to see something so massively automated that it feels like AGI.

But, with that said, I think the general direction was kinda right.

Take a look at OpenAI, for example.

In the back half of this year, it’s hard not to get the impression that it’s focussing less on frontier model-led growth, and much more on product-led growth.

Just take the 12 days of Shipmas, for example.

Most of that was based around producty stuff — search, “projects”, “canvas”, Apple Intelligence integrations, 1800-CHAT-GPT, etc., etc.

A lot of that has been exactly what I said last year about duck-taping bits and pieces together.

And I mean that almost literally — I mean, what is 1800-CHAT-GPT other than this? (Just with the head replaced by ChatGPT.)

And, I think that kinda gives us some direction for affiliate marketing.

For example, take one of the more popular AI plays we see AI grifters promoting all the time — AI-generated faceless YouTube channels.

Sadly, all of their methods usually still involve a ton of manual work. One tool is needed to write the script. Another to read the script. Another to generate the visuals. Another to create the thumbnail.

You gotta proompt here. Proompt there. Copy this. Paste that.

And, once you have all the bits, you still gotta put it all together in an editor, export it, upload it, and repeat the whole process all over again.

But, what if you could plumb all these pieces together? Surely, given all the APIs and other tech tools out there, something resembling almost full automation must be possible.

Sure, it’s gonna take an actual programmer to achieve it. And yeah, it’s probably gonna take a lot of stuff you might never have even heard of like FFmpeg.

So yeah, it’s gonna take research and some actual work.

But, once you have all the pieces together and all the plumbings in place, the only thing blocking your road to infinite scale is whatever API rate limiters you run up against.

So, what about another play?

How about a social media comment spammer?

We spelled out one idea that is totally feasible (and probably really profitable) back in our Bovada Affiliate Program Review edition. If anyone can pull that one off, they’ll likely have the sort of high-converting, massively scalable money-printing machine that would make the fed jealous.

Takeaway

If you’re feeling ambitious, there’s one New Year’s resolution for 2025 that I think you should make.

Use AI + a bunch of other tech tools to build something that no one else has. Piece together things. Automate things. Wire it all up so it actually runs on true autopilot. None of this “Hey look, it’s AI automation… but you still have to sit around at the keyboard” kinda stuff.

You deserve better. And better is definitely possible.

Now, the bad news is none of this is low-hanging fruit. It’s probably gonna take a lot of time (and potentially money) to set something like this up.

But that’s also the good news — because it’s not low-hanging fruit, you’re probably not going to be competing against anyone else… even now, two full years post-ChatGPT, there are still not enough people aiming this high.

And that means, you probably won’t be competing against that many people until AGI actually does arrive — but I don’t think you should expect that anytime in the next year.

Oh, and speaking of what to expect in the next year… I can definitely see a high-paying affiliate program in your future. The only caveat is that you’ll have to sign up with Codere Affiliates.

[PS: If you take our social media comment spam idea from before, it will work equally well with Codere Affiliates.]

Closing Thought

On that note, it kinda feels like a good time to rehash something else from last year.

So, what are we rehashing?

That would be the 1% improvement principle courtesy of the perenial favorite around here, James Clear.

[PS: For proof he’s a favorite, go look at some of our past editions, like our Coinmama affiliates review edition, our Kartra Affiliate Program review edition, or our LVBET Partners reiview. Yep, he’s in all of ‘em.]

So, what’s the 1% improvement principle, and what’s it got to do with anything here?

Well, let’s start with the 1% improvement principle.

In short, the idea here is that, instead of setting one giant goal, you should aim to make small improvements every day.

You know, like instead of saying “new year, new me”.

You should just set out to make some small improvement every day.

That’s the 1% principle.

Now, what’s it got to do with anything above?

Simple — remember how Sam Altman loves exponential curves and says no one understands them?

Well, if you can’t already see what’s coming, then maybe he’s halfway right.

You see, if you actually do achieve a 1% improvement every day, you don’t get a 100% improvement after 100 days.

Oh, no.

The 1% improvement principle is the exact definition of an exponential curve.

It starts slow…

• Day 1: 1%
• Day 2: 2%
• Day 5: 5%
• Day 10: 10.5%

But then it starts to ramp up:

• Day 50: 64%
• Day 100: 170%
• Day 150: 345%

And, if you keep that 1% improvement going for a full year, things get real crazy. By day 365, you will have achieved a grand total improvement so close enough to 3700% that you’ll almost have earned the right to quit counting and start calling yourself a superhero.

The key word there is almost.

As for the final step you need to become a full-blown superhero — that would be a killer affiliate program by your side. You know, like Codere Affiliates.

And you wanna know the best part?

Codere Affiliates don’t use the 1% principle for setting your rev share commissions. Oh no, that’s more like the double-digit-and-then-some principle.

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